Verse 1
When I’m finally laid to rest,
Lay me down in earth, not dressed
In a box of polished wood,
Let me go the way I should
No flowers placed for eyes to see,
No display of what was me
Just the soil, soft and deep,
Let the roots be where I sleep
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Pre-Chorus
Don’t hold me in a frozen frame
Let me drift, let me change
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Chorus
When I die, let me become the ground
Let my soul in the silence be found
Turn my bones into life somehow
I am not gone, I’m here right now
In the wind, in the leaves, in the sky I’ll be free
When I die… I become the tree
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Verse 2
Don’t fill me full of chemicals
Don’t make death a spectacle
Lay me where the wild things grow
Let the seasons take me slow
Plant a seed above my chest
Let it drink what I have left
Every part I leave behind
Feeds the roots and feeds new time
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Pre-Chorus
Every atom finds its place
Nothing lost, just rearranged
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Chorus
When I die, let me become the ground
Let my soul in the silence be found
Turn my bones into life somehow
I am not gone, I’m here right now
In the wind, in the leaves, in the sky I’ll be free
When I die… I become the tree
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Bridge (slower, emotional lift)
I was dust before I breathed
I return to what I need
Minerals and memory
Growing into symmetry
Every life I’ll ever be
Starts again inside that seed
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Final Chorus (bigger, full band)
When I die, don’t you bury me down
Lift me up where the roots surround
Let me rise where the light can be
Not an ending… a becoming tree
In the rain, in the air, in the earth I’ll be free
When I die… I become the tree
Jayson_Anthony
